Lord, Savior, Which First? (Poem)

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There’s an insightful, strategic twist,

Between the 2^nd and 3^rd ages of our history,

That perhaps many folks may have missed.

It concerns how to become a beneficiary,

Of The Lord’s ‘Goshen Effect’ assists,

In life’s crises, His protective Hand, exculpatory. ¹

After the global flood, The Lord was determined,

To find a man and people through whom, as a man, He would come,

To pay the price for us all who by sin are sanctioned.

Abraham and Jacob fit the bill in The Lord’s ‘faith system’.

He would be their Lord. They would receive His protections,

Plus, this deal would forever apply, not just to these twosome!

Their successive generations yoyoed rebelliously,

Desiring His protections; scoffing at His Lordship.

They believed they would possess the promised lands, endlessly,

But they despised His righteous statutes and censorship.

Such things we’re witnessing today, politically! ²

On Lordship first, then His protections, has The Lord flipped?

YES, it appears in this 3^rd age of history, He did flip!

This is the age of The Lord’s amazing, loving Grace to all.

His salvation promises are well within everyone’s grip.

Since Calvary, He’s offering rescue from our sin-freefall:

First, refuge from His harsh judgments, then, time to learn His Lordship!

In life, His protective favor extends as we heed His call. ³

Folks who embrace His salvation, but reject His Lordship,

Walk in the ‘proverbial shoes’ of ancient Jews!

‘Grace has an un-disclosed expiration date’, that’s my tip.

 ‘Use it well so you’ll avoid The Lord’s judgment queues.’

I know that’s contrary to the, ‘Once saved, always saved’ quip!

Read The Bible! On this, you’ll quickly change your views! ⁴

 

To His Lordship command, The Lord gave ancient Jews time ‘to heel’.

To His command, most generations stubbornly refused!

And some caved-in when, from them, His loving protections were peeled.

Now, He’s reversed His tactics from those used with ancient Jews.

Protections, first eternal, then as disciples. Good news!

But this in no way means His Lordship command ...we can abuse!

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¹ See: The Goshen Effect (Series). 

² The world is witnessing this attitude across much, if not most of the modern state of Israel. See: Ezekiel 33:23-29, then Zephaniah 3:11-13 for The Lord’s questions on this issue, and His promised responses to such prideful, presumptive behavior at the start of His Millennial Reign in the 5^th age of history.

³ See: Human History Ages (Series) and Prayer of Salvation (Poem). Proverbs 22:6, Hebrews 5:12-14 and many other Scriptures are clear indication of this point: After embracing The Lord’s offer of eternal salvation in Christ, by faith, we are allowed time and opportunities to grow and mature in our walk with Him, by His Spirit. Shunning His discipleship, we risk both the eternal and in-life protective benefits of His Grace. He very well knows our hearts, and is never deceived about our real intentions.

⁴ Especially see: Revelation 3:14-22

Six Days, Six Ages (Poem)

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Historical Countdown - 7 Biblical Ages of Human History (w/Video)

Six ‘days’ of creation, Earth, The Lord did dress.

Was it followed by His millennial rest?? ¹

To Enoch, He gave an invitation,

To join Him in His rest up in Heaven.

They observed how mankind followed the behests,

Of angels who had failed His loyalty test!

They witnessed how to sinfulness mankind did cleave.

By folk’s rebellion, The Lord’s heart was sorely grieved.

As their rebellion reached its apex,

He decided 8 souls to protect,

In a pending global destruction:

A planetary inundation. ²

Six ‘ages’ of history, on Earth, The Lord intends.

The 3^rd age is spiraling to its predicted end.

All because mankind continues to imitate,

Demons who, in Heaven, a coup did instigate.

From folks’ sins, Earth is in …planetary distress!

Of The Lord’s world, we have made a colossal mess! ³

 

Next time… when our rebellion reaches its apex,

The Lord pre-decided all His saints to protect,

In His long-promised solar system destruction,

And comprehensive universal combustion.

By this decision, The Lord’s heart will not be bruised,

Since His salvation Grace, folks will have abused. ⁴

 

Six ‘days’ of creation, The Lord first completed.

Then to His millennial rest, He retreated.

Now, in this 3^rd age, He offers to all, His best,

Like Enoch and Noah, to pass His ‘saving test’:

--Repent, live for Him, and receive rewards The Bible portrays.

--Fail His test, join devils who’ll suffer in His eternal blaze. ⁵

 

Six ages of history, the 3^rd age will soon end. 

Three more are to come. The 4^th age is just around the bend.

Now is your best time ever to join The Lord’s Kingdom.

Joining will be much tougher in the 4^th age to come!!!

Of that, the anti-Christ’s government will make sure, guaranteed!

He’s called, ‘the beast’, in Revelation, a short book all should read. ⁶

 

When this man is gone, back to Earth, The Lord will return,

With ALL His saints and angels, the whole world to govern.

…Ummm, Heaven emptied??

For a millennium on Earth, He, The Prince of Peace, will reign,

And all peoples will be blessed within His righteousness domain.

In those days, all devils will be locked in a bottomless pit.

But in the 6^th age, they will be released to tempt folks’ spirits. ⁷

 

The Lord promises both the 4^th and 6^th ages will be short,

After the 6^th, to Him sinners from all ages will report.

Resurrected from hell, before Him they’ll stand to be judged,

For rejecting Him, His Word and His sacrificial blood.

Into the lake of fire, somewhere on The Lord’s promised new Earth,

In flames, with devils and satan’s son, they’ll be …forever hurt. ⁸

 

In six ‘days’ of creation, Earth, The Lord dressed,

Adorned it, then man He created and blessed.

But man, Earth’s lord, found, then we all got hooked on ‘sin fixes’.

In six ages of history, deeper in sin’s ditches,

We’ll be ripe for The Lord’s two eternal experiences:

Sinners in the fiery lake; saints in glorious radiance. 

 

The number of man is ‘666’, Scripture declares.

Friends, in this poem, do you ‘see’ what The Lord prepared???

SIX… (a) days of creation; (b) Adam’s birthday; (c) our time to prepare,

For our 7^th age, in BLISS with HIM or in FLAMES of DESPAIR. ⁹

When you pass His life test, you won’t hear Him say, cold-heartedly:

I don’t know you! Depart from Me, workers of iniquity! 10

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¹ Interestingly, other than rebuking Cain for killing Abel, there is no Bible indication The Lord broadly judged mankind's mounting sinfulness during the 1st age of history, which lasted about 1,600 years. His first broad judgment of sinfulness appears to have been the global flood, roughly midway into man's second millennium on Earth. Noah was reportedly born 1,056 years after Adam was created, which was about half way into the first century of the 2nd millennium. When he reached middle age (~500 years old), The Lord revealed to Noah, His plan to judge sinfulness across the Earth via a global flood. I wonder if this delayed, broad judgment could be a hint that The Lord's 7th Day of Rest may have been ...a millennial rest. And if so, what might this infer about ...His 6 days of creation??

² See: Genesis 1:1 - 6:8

³ See: Human History Ages (Series)

⁴ See: Earth's Next Versions (Series)

⁵ This is currently the age of Grace, during which The Lord’s offer of salvation is extended to all. Salvation (i.e., being saved) is by faith in His substitutionary death offering for our sins. It triggers a reordering of our lives, to His righteous standards and requirements, communicated in His Word, The Bible, The Mind of Christ. It is His inspirational record (i.e., personally inspired by His Holy Spirit), of His key observations and actions, during the 1st, 2^nd, and early 3rd ages of human history, so we in the latter ages, will understand and heed, His invitations and warnings therein. See: Prayer of Salvation (Poem).

⁶ See: The Book of Revelation, anti-Christ (Series) and The Lake of Fire: A Preview (Series). Also see and listen to: Revelation - Read It, Hear It, Keep It! (Series).  

⁷ These will be the 5^th and 6^th ages of history. See: The Millennial Reign (Series) and Revelation 20:1-3 

⁸ The Bible teaches only the blood of Jesus Christ, strategically shed on Calvary, can wash away human sins, and pay the awful eternal price God has ordained for sinfulness. Embracing this Gospel Truth by faith, spiritually applies His ‘sin-cleansing blood’ to our lives, and makes us cleansed, spiritually-reborn sons of Father God’. The demonstrated results of this act of faith are then manifested as we mature in Christ. See my meager depiction of this future scene, The Great White Throne judgment, in Letter to 4th Age Christians (Poem)

⁹ See: Revelation 13:18. To on-going speculations about what ‘666’ means, I add this unique perspective.

¹⁰ See: Matthew 7:23, 25:41 and Luke 13:27

Letter to 4th Age Christians (Poem)

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This is a letter addressed to future Christians

in the coming tribulation age, the 4th age of human history.

This is the multitude featured in Revelation 7:9-17!

Dear 4th Age Christians,

 

Praise The Lord…

All of you who finally decided to join us,

The forgiven, redeemed saints of The Lord God, Jesus,

And all you to whom I witnessed and prayed for earnestly,

During the closing years of the 3rd age of history. ¹

 

By now, some have come to the realization,

Of Truths I shared in our many conversations,

About The Lord’s Multi-millennial Strategic Plan, 

And in the 4th age, the rise of the anti-Christ man. ²

 

Sadly, others decided His Truth not to accept.

Then, in the 3rd age, into their graves they all were swept.

Thus, in hell’s flames, their spirit and soul twins now writhe,

Until they hear The Lord’s command for them ...to rise. ³

 

When from hell they rise, in their immortal bodies they will be,

First judged, then cast into the lake of fire for eternity!

There with all devils, they’ll be forever penalized,

In more intense heat than hell’s fires where they were agonized. ⁴

 

But YOU, now Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Will escape their fate that devils enticed!

But because of your delayed decisions,

You will know the anti-Christ’s afflictions.

 

Since you missed the rapture of The Lord’s 3rd age saints,

The anti-Christ will afflict you without restraints!

Scripture predicts most, if not all of you, will be beheaded,

Because, in this man, the spirit of satan is embedded! ⁵

 

Remember, devils HATE  Christians and Jews,

Because Christians reflect The Lord’s Good News,

And Jews represent the seed through which He, as human, was born.

They know their destination, so for The Lord, they have GREAT scorn!

 

Prayers of saints from the previous ages of history,

Will help to sustain you through this man’s gross hostilities.

You who will be slain, will join us who are in bodily form,

Till the third rapture, when with your new body, you’ll be adorned! ⁶

 

Till this glorious event, before The Millennial Reign,

Let this thought strengthen your faith through all hostilities and pain:

You have deleted the place to which you were destined,

In the coming scene that the above picture …portends!!! ⁷

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¹ The post-cross age of Grace, referred to as the church age. See: Human History Ages (Series)

² The Bible, The Word of God. See: anti-Christ (Series)

³ The Bible iteratively affirms our spirit and soul twins are immortal, and thus are eternal. They survive our mortal death; they are fully sentient, capable of sensing and feeling; and they are fully conscious of, and responsive to the sensations of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and smelling. Disbelieve this at your own future shock and peril. (See: For You, Which Resurrection? (Poem), and especially Post-death Consciousness (Q&A)) And for you who believe sinners will instantly die again, as soon as they are cast into the lake of fire on the new Earth, please see: Proof of Their Immortality (Poem). It includes a footnoted, in-depth guide to what The Bible actually says about this critical matter.

⁴ See: Hiatus From Hades (Poem). Revelation 20:14 says The Lord will cast both hell and death into the lake of fire, somewhere on the promised new Earth He likely has already created. This may be a hint that the lake of fire is BIGGER, and possibly much HOTTER than hell where unrepentant sinners are in reserve, pending their final judgment! If so, major wOw! 

⁵ See: Revelation 7:9-17 and 13:7. Please don’t think for a moment this verse signals only the tribulation saints will serve in The Millennial Reign! Predictions that ALL The Lord’s previously resurrected/raptured saints will also be on Earth at that time are emphasized in Daniel 7:27, Zechariah 14:5, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, Jude 1:14, and 2 Thessalonians 1:10.

⁶ See: Matthew 24:31. Some Bible teachers think this verses applies to ALL saints throughout the first 4 ages of history, rather than to the resurrection and rapture of 4th age saints. Ergo, they believe church age saints will experience the great tribulation. This is totally contrary to The Lord's Goshen Effect iteratively illustrated and predicted across the ENTIRE Bible. This verse, read in context of the whole Bible, clearly refers to the same group of saints noted in Zechariah 14:5, 2, 1 Thessalonians 3:13, Thessalonians 1:10, and Jude 1:14. These teachers, and many others, may think most of the Book of Revelation is about the 3rd age saints. Rather, after chapters 2 and 3 (The Lord's letters to first century, 3rd age churches), saints from the 3rd age of history are not referenced until in chapters 20, 21 and 22. It is critical to have a correct understanding of this point, else errant teachings will persist. One Tucson pastor even insisted to his Bible study class, 'There will be NO Millennial Reign!' Shocked??  I definitely was!

⁷ See: Revelation 20:11-17